Sesser, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
490 ft 150 m480 ft 145 m470 ft 145 m460 ft 140 m450 ft 140 m450 ft 135 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 ft
USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau
How to use this mapviews, tools and data
- Elevation
- Ground colored by height from green (lowest) to white (highest), with contour lines every 40–500 ft (USGS data).
- Satellite
- A 2016 satellite photo at 33 ft (10 m) detail; contours off.
- 3D
- Tilt and turn the terrain; hills are raised 1.5×, or set ×1 for true height.
- Click or tap anywhere
- The exact elevation of that spot in ft and m.
- Measure
- Pick two points for the climb, descent and grade along a straight line.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Sesser sits at about 470 ft (145 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
470 ft 145 m
most residents: 470–480 ft
Lowest
450 ft 135 m
on the southwest side
Highest
490 ft 150 m
near the middle
Average
470 ft 145 m
all land inside city limits
Sesser spans about 40 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where its people live, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 470 ft145 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, near the middle | 490 ft150 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 450 ft135 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Sesser | 480 ft145 m |
| Airport (H96) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.8 mi southeast of the city limits | 444 ft135 m |
| Average of all land | 470 ft145 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Franklin County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 1,876 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.0 sq mi
- Density
- 1,799 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.0917° N, 89.0504° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Little Muddy River → Big Muddy River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Benton Municipal (H96) 444 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 62884
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Bald Hill Township480 ft
- Sesser470 ft
- Goode Township470 ft
- Waltonville460 ft
- North City460 ft
- Barren Township450 ft
- Tyrone Township440 ft
- Elk Prairie Township440 ft
- Nason430 ft
- Valier430 ft
- Buckner400 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois2,540th highest of 2,872
- Towns in Franklin County5th highest of 27
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Grammer Hill570 ft
- Moores Hill540 ft
- Webbs Hill500 ft
- Turkey Knob490 ft
- Browning Hill450 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city limits, at its USGS 3DEP height, weighted by the people who live there. Half of residents live higher, half lower.
- Lowest, highest, average: USGS 3DEP bare-earth heights on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid, land only, inside the Census city limits (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- Nearby Places: nearby towns and rankings use each town's typical elevation, so every town is compared like for like. Rankings count every city, town, township and census-designated place, including places inside a town. Peaks and hills: the nearest summits with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence within 62 mi (100 km), then federal (GNIS) summits within 16 mi (25 km) when there are fewer than 5; each is the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a usable survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it (shown as published).
- Rounding: computed heights are rounded to 10 ft (5 m), or to 1 ft (1 m) under 100 ft; 3DEP is good to about a meter, not a foot. Published figures (FAA airport elevation, NGS survey heights) are shown as their publisher gives them.
- Datum: North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88). NGS plans to replace NAVD 88 with a new datum (NAPGD2022); heights will then shift slightly.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.